@acka47@openbiblio.socialStarting the fourth chapter "The Rise of the Web" of #ThisIsForEveryone, I am pleasently surprised to find out a librarian — Louise Addis of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) — played an important, supportive role in the very first days of the web.
@mela@zusammenkunft.net
@cdarwin@c.imA librarian fired by county officials in Campbell County, Wyoming, for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from shelves got the last laugh with a $700,000 settlement
https://www.rawstory.com/wyomin…
@mia@hcommons.socialThere's so much inspiration in this iterview with John Unsworth https://www.arl.org/blog/john-unsworth-on-libraries-higher-education-and-anti-facism/
And it led me to Former UMD Dean of Libraries Adriene Lim's interview, whi…
@grumpybozo@toad.socialThe Ann Arbor library is so good at community engagement that yesterday the voters gave them a chunk of land in downtown AA for development.
#michigan https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/1149850…
@BootsChantilly@mstdn.socialToday, I got to tell a nasty, loud, mean Karen who was being shitty to one of my favorite nail techs to calm her tits. When she tried to yell at me, I shooshed her librarian style.
I woulda made a good librarian.
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotI received my new national identity card today. The process of getting it was very easy. I went to the library last week, said I'd lost my id card, the librarian looked me up on the database, checked that my face matched the photo in the database, confirmed that my address hadn't changed. Then she ordered me a new card (no cost).
I really don't understand why the English think this is so threatening.
@holger_moller@bildung.social"A key principle of PKM is that no one has the right answer, but together we can create better ways of understanding complex systems. We each need to find others who are sharing their knowledge flow and in turn contribute our own. It’s not about being a better digital librarian, it’s about becoming a participating member of a networked organization, economy and society."
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@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"#Serendipity is generally defined as the accidental discovery of something valuable while searching for something else. It’s also a hotly contested component of the library research process: is it a failure of #library systems or facilitated by the physical design of libraries, the cat…
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"The Librarian Skillset and the Needs of Artificial Intelligence"
https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2025.2539787
"New roles in AI are emerging throughout Industry, Academia, and Government. From responsible AI management to AI systems engineering, these roles requi…
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"Creative library spaces: The future of the academic #library #makerspace" https://creativel…
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgIn spite of having read several of Iain Banks' non-Sci Fi oeuvre I had never been remotely tempted by the culture novels, though I have friends who raves about them at Uni. Then I spotted this on a summer reading table at the library, which I suppose shows the value of a good librarian...
#IainMBanks #Culture novel. Actually, surprisingly my first. That's the gift of both train travel and a good book. #bookstodon #booksky #FlyingLess
